Cohasset police charge parents who left 5-year-old locked in car for an hour

A 5-year-old boy was left locked in a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee parked outside a store near the Scituate town line on Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3A) on Sunday morning (May 4) for over one hour, police said. The store manager, who removed the boy from the car, notified police and said the child was crying and hungry.

A 5-year-old boy was left locked in a 1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee parked outside a store near the Scituate town line on Chief Justice Cushing Highway (Route 3A) on Sunday morning (May 4) for over one hour, police said. The store manager, who removed the boy from the car, notified police and said the child was crying and hungry.

Police arrived and ran the plate that came back to a 27-year-old Scituate man. At that point a woman, who is 24 and from Hingham, approached by foot on 3A and identified herself as the boy’s mother. Police said apparently she and her boyfriend, who is the boy’s father, had an argument; they left the Jeep with the boy inside and both went their separate ways.

Police are summonsing both parents to court for reckless endangerment of a child. Police contacted the state Department of Children and Families and transported the parents and boy to the police station. DCF interviewed the parents and released the boy into the custody of the mother. They opened a case on the family and will be investigating further.